Complete and utter rip off.

Rating: 2/10 (28 February 2005)

Not only is this film boring and dull, but it is also no where near as original as everyone thinks.
The whole virus concept has been used millions of times- e.g.Resident Evil (i hate the film but I'm using it here as an example. The games are much better)so why does everyone think that 28 is so great? Also, this is NOT a zombie film. Zombies don't run and we are told that these people are infected with 'rage'. Yeah, we all feel like that sometimes don't we? These are called 'the infected' as if that gives them some sort of excuse... I am a student and i went for an interview at Salisbury College where i was told lots of people helped to make the 'zombies' for 28. See, people don't know what zombies are any more...
The whole storyline is ripped off a book called 'Plague' that i read in year 8 about the black death. It has the deserted London setting, and comes complete with a young girl coming home to find her parents dead in bed together having left her a note. Really Danny Boyle, Trainspotting was great but cant you be that original more often with your films? For my last point, everyone says how great the opening is with Jim coming out of the hospital and seeing deserted London, but I've got news for you. Its already been done! If you have ever seen 'Day of the Triffids' then you will know that the film opens with a meteor shower and then a man wakes up in a hospital with signs of chaos, things knocked over and glass broken, then he walks outside and finds that London is silent and deserted. He even walks past a bus lying on its side.
I think that if Danny Boyle wanted this film to be any sort of a tribute then he should have made it clear in the documentaries.